Community Involvement
Essays

The company (AandB Pots and Pans Ltd) wants a report that explores issues and makes justified recommendations using appropriate supporting references. This is not related to the scripts to be written but to such areas as: - the advantages and disadvantages of using proprietary or Open Source software; - the conditions and terms of Open Source software licences versus proprietary software licences; - how a small team of three novice programmers can work together and with a larger community to implement a solution. The company will want to use some of its current staff to implement the application: three novice programmers with very little programming experience. A major problem for them is that they have never worked on a large project requiring a team effort; they are much more used to working in isolation. The company wants to see a clear selection of the best choice for its website. All the factors that need to be considered in making such a choice need to be laid out for the company, together with their level of importance. The proposed solution and another rejected option then need to be explained in terms of the factors used to select the solution.

¶ … Managing corporate community involvement" (Van der Voort, Glac, & Meijs 2009) attempts to understand how corporate community involvement (CCI) functions in an organization. CCI become an increasingly popular…